Largemouth Bass Fishing

Largemouth bass fishing is arguably the most popular game fishing sport, and definitely the biggest in the sport of freshwater fishing. These little green fish are hard fighting and exciting to catch, and offer a nice challenge for beginners to even the greatest of professional anglers.

The largemouth bass is my favorite species of game fish to go after. There's not much of anything else like having these predators blow up on your lures and to take on a battle with.

How about you? The fact that you are here reading this right now probably means that you enjoy banging it out with these feisty fish, and/or that you want to learn more about them.

Learning to understand the fish will definitely help increase your chances of catching them.

Applying the proper bass fishing techniques will guarantee an increase for your catch rate, allowing you to land more and bigger bass. Try to take notice of any bass fishing tips offered from other anglers, see what they're doing, and learn from that as you incorporate it into your own style.

The majority of my angling adventures is largemouth bass fishing. Even when I fish for other species of fish, I can't help but to go after those bucketmouths as well, since I have the two pole stamp.

It doesn't matter if I'm on a boat or fishing from the bank for big fat bass. I'll simply cast lures along the shore lines with my bass set-up, while my other pole sits in a rod holder, rigged to soak or drift bait. Although, that has been known to get a little chaotic at times, in a good way,... hooking up with fish on both rods at the same time.

Largemouth bass can be caught on a number of different lures. Some can be used all year round, while others are better for certain circumstances. Many, if not most, bass anglers have a large collection of tackle and lures.

And as I have already mentioned elsewhere, about 90 percent of the tackle on the market is meant to attract the fisherman, and not necessarilly the fish. Ultimately, bass fishing best lures are the ones that you have confidence in.

We all want to catch fish every time we hit the water. After all, that's usually the main reason why we go, right? As long as we have a good time. Unfortunately, It doesn't always pan out that way. It never feels good to end a day with a "goose egg" on your score card. Especially in a tournament, if you ever participate in them.

Some days the bass just don't want to hit anything. Other days, you can bust them all day long. There are days when I am catching so many that I have felt it was just way too easy and not challenging enough. I would realize that although I'm catching a lot of small ones and a few ranging from 2 to 4 pounds, the idea is to weed out the small ones to seek out and catch big bass.

It's important to remain motivated and focused, and make each cast count for you, like it might be your last. Like Mike Iaconelli says for his moto, "never give up." And who knows, your next cast might have a state record largemouth bass fishing around right behind your lure. Or better yet, the world record largemouth bass. Check out this candidate gunning for a world record bass, currently a shareholder for the record.

Cast us a line and tell us about your bass fishing. And remember to have fun and take a child fishing. Good luck!